Dark romanticism

In “A Dream,” poet Edgar Allen Poe employs a variety of literary devices such as reinforcement in what happens to him in the past and his experiences through his dreams, and his wishes to explore what has faded from his past. The poet begins by addressing of how he wishes to be actually in his past, but the truth is that it hurts him to woken up from this past and the love that faded from reality into memory. He is dreaming of joy that has now left him, and that joy is no longer real to…

Fifth Avenue, is one of his best known works captured in 1892, which is no doubt an aesthetic art. As a whole, Stieglitz unified this image by the aid of natural elements—rain and snow, which perfectly depicted the scene that the storm swallowed dark horses, the carriage, as well as the man who struggled or probably competed with the snowy weather. As for the frame, with less interests in the condition of the figure, Stieglitz highlighted the composition of the entire scene. Standing in front…

The painting is dark both in lighting and style to carry the attitude of the hopelessness and desperation present in such an event. Goya began to create works of an allegorical and mythological nature. However the greater part of his works consisted of religious art, studies…

American history is filled with ups and downs. First you have the settlement era where very clueless and scared individuals move across the world to live in a very unfamiliar place. Then you have the enlightenment era were people change up their philosophies and start to take more about nature and science. It continues all the way to the era we are currently in, postmodern era where we write more freely. American literate styles changes as time goes on. These styles change because of historical…

Comparing Two Forces as One: a Classical Poem “To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”(Hugo 810). These words were spoken by a famous French poet named Victor Hugo. Throughout the poem, The Genesis of Butterflies, words and their devices came together to ensure the reader is left with a new outlook on love and nature, making it one of the best poems. There are three different devices that were used. They are personification combined with imagery,…

I must say that while reading the essay, I have felt lost countless times and couldn’t grasp the point he was trying to make in the long-winded and obscure paragraphs. However, his worship towards nature has been clear from the start. Nature in his mind is such a pure yet such complicated thing, and he believes that nature is never cruel and all parts of nature represents something beautiful and forever emanates kindness. He expresses his ideal relationship between nature and men by explaining…

editor The turbulent life of Edgar Allan Poe, the last but not least made many enemies because of his alcohol consumption was significantly influenced by the rift with his foster father John Allan and the early deaths of several esteemed by him women. Since he failed to make the beloved poetry his livelihood, and he could not stand there as a soldier and officer at the Academy Westpoint long, he devoted himself increasingly to the publication of short stories for various magazines. As the de…

Last, Turgenev expounds on the modernist ideology and its impact through depicting changes in perspectives on nature's purpose. Formerly, people viewed nature as something beautiful and mysteriously connected to the rest of life, which is clear in Nikolai's comment to Arkady that, "In honor of [Arkady's] arrival ... spring's in full bloom" (11). Likewise, people previously considered nature aesthetically pleasing and artistic as seen in Nikolai's relation to spring via a popular Russian poem,…

The Southwest Humanities course has read three books, in three different genres over the span of the semester; ranging from Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire, being the nature writing, Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony, the fiction, and Luis Alberto Urrea’s The Devil’s Highway, which is a creative non-fiction. Each author made a specific contribution to the class themes and the Southwest Humanities. During the semester, the non-fiction books have brought the most to the table. Though the fiction…

4. Literature in 1920s reflected the uncertainty of the the time period perfectly. World War I left a questionable impact, leaving some people questioning the future of previous beliefs and traditions and also challenged people to make new discoveries. World War I caused writers and philosophers to question the new ways and accept the new ideas about reason and progress. Some people feared the ideas and what they would do to their past beliefs and some writers expressed their fears by writing…